LTTE in the Cincinnati Enquirer

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

Note to the mods: As this is a LTTE, I assume that copyright doesn't apply:

Gay isn't normal, no matter who says
Dr. Daniel W. Nebert
I agree with Peter Bronson's assessment of "The slippery slopes of Brokeback Mountain" (Feb. 26), echoed by Charles Krauthammer's thoughts regarding another movie ("'Syriana' reeks with betrayal," March 3). This is simply more of Hollywood's agenda to push the secular-progressive movement: "Let's give that movie Oscar nominations in many categories, just to make a political point."

Genetically and evolutionarily speaking, homosexuality is not normal - no matter how Hollywood and other secular progressives wish to spin it. "Normality" (in genetic or evolutionary terms) is defined as reproductive success that leads to future healthy generations of the species. Sexual orientation, as well as courtship behavior, is regulated in the fruit fly by Fruitless, a gene that functions specifically in the brain. Fruitless mutants show aberrant mating behavior. Many fru mutations result in male flies that court indiscriminately. When fru mutant males are grouped together, they form male-male courtship "chains" in which each male is simultaneously both courting and being courted; all mutant combinations show some male-male "chaining."

Specific chromosomal regions have been associated with the human "gay" phenotype, but no gene has been identified with certainty.

As with any other biological defect, the risk of homosexuality reflects the combination of multiple mutated genes plus environmental factors. In the case of human homosexuality, "the environment" is likely to be an imbalance of sex steroid levels at some critical point during pregnancy, affecting the fetal brain, most likely in the third trimester.

Studies have now shown that differences in diet and stress in the pregnant mother can affect the fetus in the uterus - which can lead to increased blood pressure, risk of heart trouble and/or kidney disease in that baby 40 or 60 years later. In fact, even if a grandmother had smoked cigarettes, her daughter's daughter can show substantially greater risk of asthma and other lung diseases.

Subtle environmental effects on our genes continue to be discovered, as more and more exciting medical research is being carried out.

Dr. Daniel W. Nebert is a professor in the Department of Environmental Health, Center for Environmental Genetics and Department of Pediatrics & Molecular Developmental Biology at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

This is why I am glad that I no longer live in Cincinnati. A bigger bunch of backwoods country fucks I've never seen in my life.

[Pryderi]

1. Wait. I thought being gay was a choice.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. No...

Apparently it's a fucking birth defect...

Might I suggest that we all visit this site:

http://www.uc.edu/president/feedback.html

and leave some feedback for the President of the University of Cincinnati?

[Imagine My Surprise]

2. As a gay man 90 miles away in Louisville, just curious where you moved to

from Cincinnati. Thanks.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. My handle is "Jeff in Milwaukee"

So there you have it. I live in Pittsburgh.

[Kerrytravelers]

4. The stupidity that is reflected in this letter is beyond comment.

I question what kind of a "doctor" this guy is, bring that obvious science of homosexuality is clearly not comprehended by this idiot.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. He's got a background in genetics...

I used to work at the UC Medical Center.

[Kerrytravelers]

10. Does he understand genetics... or is he a "Christian scientist"...

... putting the actual genetics behind his fundamentalist agenda.

I wonder if he also thinks feminism is a birth defect. What about Islam? Are those people suffering from a birth defect?

What else has this monster done?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. Hard to tell...

He deals with genetic responses to environmental factors. Stuff like that.

[maxsolomon]

7. borned and raised up thar till i was 28.

and i don't miss it. ever.

statistically speaking, if homosexuality is say, 10% of the population, then yes, that is 'not normal', if normality is defined as the majority condition.

but so fucking what? is this dickhead proposing pre-natal monitoring to prevent homosexuality?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

8. Bunch o' jerks.

I feel for the few liberals who live there.

I read recently, that Cincy was the only major city that FDR never carried . . .

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

9. You heard correctly...

During the darkest days of World War II, Cincinnati assholes wanted to changge Presidents.